LETTER I. p. 1.
LETTER II. p. 11.
_Plan of conduct while abroad.—Agree to correspond by
letter.—Servants.—Masters._
LETTER III. p. 18.
_Marquis de F——.—Colisée.—Characters._
LETTER IV. p. 26.
_French manners._
LETTER V. p. 33.
_Paris.—London.—French opinions.—Marquis de F—— and Lord M——._
LETTER VI. p. 38.
_Loyalty, English, German, Turkish, French.—Le Roi.—Princes of
the blood.—Ideas of government._
LETTER VII. p. 48.
_Sentiments of Frenchmen concerning the British constitution._
LETTER VIII. p. 54.
_French Kings have peculiar reasons to love their subjects.—The
three sons of Catherine of Medicis.—Henry IV.—Natural effects
of exertion and of sloth on the body, understanding, heart._
LETTER IX. p. 63.
_A French lover._
LETTER X. p. 68.
_Groundless accusations.—Friendship.—English travellers._
LETTER XI. p. 76.
_English prejudices.—Conversation with Mr. B——.—Reflections._
LETTER XII. p. 86.
_Tragedy of Siege of Calais.—Bon mot of Duc
d’Ayen.—Russia—Prussia.—France.—Statue of Lewis XV.—Epigrams._
LETTER XIII. p. 95.
_Chevalier B—— and his lady.—Madame de M——, her character;—her
misfortune._
LETTER XIV. p. 103.
_Condition of the common people in France.—Unwillingness to
censure the King.—French parliaments.—Lawyers indiscriminately
ridiculed on the French stage.—Opposition in England._
LETTER XV. p. 113.
_Dubois and Fanchon._
LETTER XVI. p. 126.
_Mankind do not always act from motives of self-interest.—A
fine gentleman and a pine-apple.—Supper at the Marquis de
F——’s.—Generosity of Mr. B——.—Men who calculate.—Men who do
not._
LETTER XVII. p. 137.
_Different taste of French and English with respect to
tragedy.—Le Kain.—Garrick.—French comedy.—Comedie Italienne,
Carlin.—Repartée of Le Kain._
LETTER XVIII. p. 150.
_Pleasure and business.—Lyons.—Geneva._
LETTER XIX. p. 157.
_Situation of Geneva.—Manners.—Government.—The clergy.—Peculiar
customs.—Circles.—Amusements._
LETTER XX. p. 168.
_English families at Cologny.—Le jour de l’Escalade.—Military
establishment.—Political squabbles.—Sentiments of an
Englishman.—Of a gentleman of Geneva._
LETTER XXI. p. 178.
_King of Arquebusiers.—A Procession.—A Battle._
LETTER XXII. p. 187.
_A Feast._
LETTER XXIII. p. 193.
_The garrison and fortifications of Geneva not
useless.—Standing armies in other countries.—The freedom and
independence of Geneva of service to the King of Sardinia._
LETTER XXIV. p. 201.
_Journey to the Glaciers of Savoy.—Mole.—Cluse.—The Rhone and
the Arve.—Sallenche.—Mules.—A church.—Conversation with a young
peasant in the valley of Chamouni._
LETTER XXV. p. 214.
_Mountanvert.—The Chamois.—Mount Breven.—Mont Blanc.—The
Needles.—The Valley of Ice.—Avalanches._
LETTER XXVI. p. 228.
_Account of Glaciers continued.—Theories._
LETTER XXVII. p. 236.
_Idiots.—The sentiments of an old Soldier.—Guatres.—Journey
from Chamouni to the Pays de Vallais.—Martigny.—Sion._
LETTER XXVIII. p. 247.
_Road to St. Maurice.—Reflections on the situation of the Pays
de Vallais.—Bex.—Aigle.—St. Gingo.—Meillerie.—Evian.—Repaille._
LETTER XXIX. p. 261.
_Voltaire._
LETTER XXX. p. 273.
_Voltaire._
LETTER XXXI. p. 286.
_The education proper for an English gentleman._
LETTER XXXII. p. 301.
_Suicide frequent at Geneva.—Two remarkable instances._
LETTER XXXIII. p. 309.
_The Pays de Vaud.—Lausanne.—Vevay.—Ludlow._
LETTER XXXIV. p. 318.
_Murat.—Swiss peasants._
LETTER XXXV. p. 325.
_Bern._
LETTER XXXVI. p. 335.
_Religion.—Government.—Troops._
LETTER XXXVII. p. 345.
_Soleurre.—Basil.—Judicious remark on the use of language, by a
Dutchman._
LETTER XXXVIII. p. 351.
_Manners.—Reflections on formality.—The
Library.—Holbens.—Arsenal.—Council-hall.—The clock in the
Tower.—A head._
LETTER XXXIX. p. 361.
_Marechal Contades.—Theatre.—French troops._
LETTER XL. p. 368.
_Gothic architecture.—Cathedral of Strasbourg.—A sermon.—A
Jewish plot._
LETTER XLI. p. 377.
_Karlsruch.—The Margrave of Baden Durlach._
LETTER XLII. p. 387.
_Manheim.—The Elector.—The Court.—A buffoon._
LETTER XLIII. p. 394.
_Heidelberg.—The same church for the Protestant and Roman
Catholic worship.—Parade devotion._
LETTER XLIV. p. 399.
_Reflections on the liberty of the press.—Comparisons of
inconveniencies arising from that cause with those felt under
despotic restraint._
LETTER XLV. p. 406.
_Mentz._
LETTER XLVI. p. 411.
_Frankfort.—Lutherans unkind to Calvinists.—Psalmody.—Burials.—Jews._
LETTER XLVII. p. 422.
_Manners.—Distinction of ranks.—Theatrical entertainments.—The
German language.—Traineaus._
LETTER XLVIII. p. 433.
_Nobility and citizens.—The revenge of a Tobacconist.—The field
of Bergen._
LETTER XLIX. p. 443.
_The Prince of Hesse Darmstadt.—Discipline.—The family of
Prince George._
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